My New Book: Reflection: A Twisted Tale

Today in our normal Friday school assembly all of our classes got a little treat, Which was our new Duffy books that we received from Pt England School Dominion Constructions LTD. The book i got was called Reflection: A Twisted Tale, Its about Mulan traveling to the underworld to save Captain Shang from a certain death. 

A huge thanks to the Pt England School Dominion Constructions LTD for giving us these amazing books to our classes and i cannot wait to read my new book. 

Room Three Math

 

Yesterday my class went to room three for the day, In room three we did a couple of tasks involving maths and this is what i did. 

9 Facts About Tokelau

 

Here is my blog post about Tokelau, In my blog post it shows you nine facts about Tokelau. Hope you Enjoy. 

Taha Whanau

 

Today for Te Whare Tapa Wha we had to create our owns task and this is the one i made. I used the alphabet to learn how to spell my name in New Zealand Sign Language. 

Taha Tinana

 

Today for our Taha challenges we use sign language to sign different types of sports. 

Theseus and the Minotaur - Math

This week my class have been doing Theseus and the Minotaur themed work, We had to get through mazes, create mazes, and learn how to use number in a different language such as Romanian. 

Taha Hinengaro - New Zealand Sign Language Week

Today for our Te Whare Tapa Wha my class we're learning about Taha Hinengaro, and since it's New Zealand Sign Language week my class are using sign language to express our feelings towards different situations.  

Taha Wairua - New Zealand Sign Language Week

 

Today is the start of New Zealand Sign Language Week and in honor of it my class and other classes at my school are learning how to use sign language. We've only been learning easy/simple signs but i hope we end up at least learning how to make a sentence.    

Cross Country

 On Friday our school had our annual cross country, Everyone was super excited about it and couldn't wait. We had our morning tea and got changed into our house colors, Then we had lunch.

After Lunch it was time for the moment we've been training for the big race. Our classes lined up and walked to the netball courts, All the students participating we're there waiting to start the races. 

Mr Burt told us where to go on the track then handed the mic to Inga one of Pt England's house captains so she could say the prayer. 

The year four students we're the first to race since it would be easier for them the school to keep track of time. When the year four students finished their race it was the year 3 and then year 2 and year 1, they didn't go at the same time but that was the order they went in. 

Now it was time of the big races a.k.a the older kids. The year 5 boys were the first to start the races. A little while after the year 5 boys started the year 8 girls where up. 

We all lined up and waited for Mr Burt to slam the pieces of wood together, I felt nervous about the race but at the same time i didn't. 'BOOM' the wood was slammed together and all the girls started running. 

It was a rush of nervousness and excitement, I ran a for a while before stopping and walking. I walked the rest of the way not bothered at all what over people thought. I finished the race and everyone was drinking their water bottles and cooling off. 

Everyone finished their races and we got changed out of our clothes so we didn't stink for the rest of the day. When we were done getting changed we went back to class and chilled out until the bell went for us to go home. 

 

Year 7&8 Leader Highlights

 10 things i heard the leaders or year 7&8 

1. They all stepped up 

2. They all got our of their comfort zone

3. The year 7s liked the shared lunch 

4. They captains were proud

5. They enjoyed being with their own year groups

6. Liked watching people help each other

7. They got along

8. They worked hard

9. They communicated well

10. They all participated 

Those were some of the things i heard 

Year 8 Camp

 On Wednesday 5th of August most of the year 8 students at Point England School went to Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp.

When we arrived at camp we meet the owners of the camp, they introduced themselves and told us the boundaries and told us about a couple of fun activities we were going to do that day. 

Our first activity was called "Cross Games" it's were your team vs other teams compete against each other in multiple activities. They were really fun and they showed us how to work and move around like a team. 

We had a lot of activities we did during our leadership camp but these are a few of my favorite ones. 

Go Karts 

Go Karts with Mr J was one out of three of my favorite activities, It was super fun being inside the go kart and driving really fast and it was just a rush of excitement. Also i had the second fastest time out of my group 48.0 seconds. 

Air Riffles 

Air Riffles with Samanda with Air Riffles we had to draw our own target. I put dreams on my target because i was shooting for my dreams. I was proud of myself because i shot my target 3 out of five bullets. 

Railway Jiggers 

Railway jiggers was the last activitie i did, i liked it because it was really fun and full of laughs. I loved how everyone in my group were laughing their lungs out. 

Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed... 

Unfinished Story

Beginning: Max’s Pov 

As I was dreaming about being in a world-wide racing tournament, I heard the sound of my blinds opening and a clatter of whispering voices. I woke up with the beaming warm sun in my eyes. I got up when I saw a strange looking object on my bedside (>_<) table. I picked it up when it slipped out of my hand and rolled under my bed. I went to pick it up but to my surprise I saw a door, I was really confused because I've never seen it there. I opened the door and got a huge fright when I saw what was inside... 



Task Description:
In room 2 Literacy we had to choose a photo on our photo gallery and write about it. The photo you can see is the photo i chose i hope you like the first paragraph of my story. 

Dragon Eye Lake

In Inquiry today my class went to Mrs Tele'a class to learn about the Legend of the Dragon's eye lake. We learned the Legend of why it was called that and why it looked the way it did. I hope you like to poster i made about the legend of The Dragon's Eye Lake. 

The Myth Of Hermes

Today for inquiry we learnt about Greek Mythology. We learnt about the different Greek gods, the great creation story and about Hermes. When Hermes was a baby he in-twined fire and lyre a harp. See my story.

Term 3 Immersion Assembly

Today was the first day of term 3 which meant we would have a our annual Immersion Assembly.
The Immersion assembly started with Mr Burt showing us his hat collection and telling us where about in the world he got his hats and short story's about them. Then he Mr Jacobson started talking about his family and why he was wearing a kilt, Turns out the kilt was worn by his grandfather when he was about to go to war. Next was Mr Somerville he didn't know much about his family before the holidays but then he asked about it and turns out he comes from and long line of Lords. The first Lord Somerville was made a lord by a king from Scotland and was given land in Scotland. His family also has a village named Somerville Village because that was there land and they also have a castle that belong to his family in the area. 

Team 1
The first team to come and present what they are going to be learning about was Team 1 they are learning about other kids at school around the world, Basically they learn what they do during the day or after school. And they showed us that by making a video for us to watch.

Team 2
The second team to present what their learning about was team 2, Team 2 are exploring the world looking for famous land marks they also showed us using a video.

Team 3
The third team was team 3 they are going to have an amazing race around the world, which was showed using a video.

Team 4
The second to last team was team 4, team 4 are experimenting and tasting many different dishes of food from  different country's. They also presented using a video


Team 5
The last team was team 5, team 5 showed us a play showing and legend called Sina and the eel. Team 5 is learning about Myths and Legends.

Kia-O-Rahi with room 1&3

Today at my school me and my class (room 3) and Mrs Moala's class (room 1) played a game of Kia-O-Rahi. Both of our classes were super excited to play.

Once we got to the netball court outside of our class we got some tag belts and tags and lined up so we can be split into 2 groups. After we got into our groups we started the game with my class team purple in the circle and Mrs moalas class as the center and outside team yellow.

In the beginning my team was winning but when it became closer to the end team yellow started winning. When it was time to switch groups our group was losing a lot. But the end result was us just having fun.  Hopeful we can play Kia-O-Rahi again.

Special School Assembly

Today at Pt England Schools anal Friday assembly we had a little celebration for our principle Mr Burt, Because on the queens birthday he received a very special award from the queen called the "New Zealand Order Of Merit For Service Of Education".

Mr Burt planned our assembly just like he would any other assembly we have, But this time the assembly went a little out of order because the whole school teamed up to do a surprise celebration for out Principle.

It started of with Mrs Nua our deputy principle congratulating Mr Burt for his amazing achievement, after that another bunch of important people started speak about the award Mr Burt. Once we finished the year 7 and 8 students started to sing "Ufiufi" and then the whole school started to sing "Ka Waiata" and then all the year 7 and 8 boys plus other people started to do a Haka...

After that Mr Burt said a speech saying thank you to everyone for the special assembly. Then we carried on with our normal assembly.





     

Whare Tapa Wha - Whanau Tahi

This week in whaea kellys class we learned about Te Whare Tapa Wha. and we had to  write 6 facts about someone in our bubble, heres mine enjoy...

Te Whare Tapa Wha

Walt:Understand the four sides of Te Whare Tapa Wha.

Task Description: Room 3 have been learning and discovering the four different sides of Te Whare Tapa Wha. Along the way of Learning new things about this topic our teachers Mrs.Tele'a and Whaea Kelly gave us a presentation about Te Whare Tapa Wha in order to complete this task we had to research about the four sides of Te Whare Tapa Wha. Here is the work i completed.

Information Web

Walt: Find and summaries key information in a text.
 Task Description: This week Ms Tapuke asked room 11 literacy to learn about some New Zealand Film Directors. I was given Taika Waititi, I had to find out Personal Details and Some of the awards Taika Waititi has won over the years and turn it into a information web. I hope you like my information web about Taika Waititi.